Monthly Archives: September 2008

Alex (Allentown, PA): You mentioned Penn State as a team on the rise and a 2009 National Championship Contender. How do you believe this affects Joe Paterno’s status considering he is in the last year of his contract? Does he decide when he leaves?

SportsNation Beano Cook: I think he will be back next year, I did not think that two years ago, and predicted 2008 would be it a few years back. Penn State could make a run this year given the Big Ten. I feel Penn State or Wisconsin will win the Big Ten. I am not writing off Ohio State, I am just making a prediction. I can’t pick every team.

Of course, this was before Wisconsin lost to Michigan, but still Beano on the Penn State bandwagon is a scary thing.

Thom Loverro: Nats return to scene of the (original) crime – The Wash. TimesWhile I try to figure out how and more importantly when to write about the state of the Nationals, check out this column from yesterday about when it all went bad for the Nats — game 4 in Philadelphia. Oddly enough, my favorite scapegoat for that game and thus the season, Jesus Colome is not mentioned.

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When I was 9 years old, we visited our former neighbors in their new Michigan home for Thanksgiving. According to Bruce Campbell, we didn’t celebrate the right way.

Later that weekend, we piled into the back of a Chevy station wagon (diesel even) and drove through Detroit to Windsor, Ont. just to say we went to Canada, I guess. We had McDonald’s and since it was warm, the back window was rolled down. J.J. shot spitballs onto the Canadian street. Then we got stuck in traffic crossing the Ambassador Bridge and I half-ate a Snickers.